PAT Executive Board

Dr. Sandra Horvath-Peterson is an Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She works mainly on modern France, with an emphasis on political, social and religious history. Her first book, Victor Duruy and French Education: Liberal Reform in the Second Empire, was published by the Louisiana State University Press. She is now working on her second book which focuses on Holocaust rescue. Dr. Horvath-Peterson has been a member of Phi Alpha Theta since 1966, and faculty advisor for Georgetown University’s Beta Pi Chapter since 1992. She was the Coordinator of the Mid-Atlantic Region of Phi Alpha Theta for two terms, and at the national level, she has been on scholarship and research award committees, as well as the Council. Most recently, she has served as Vice-President and then President of Phi Alpha Theta (2008-2010 and 2010-2012, respectively).

Robert C. Carriker

Dr. Robert Carriker is the Alphonse and Geraldine Arnold Distinguished Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington where he has taught for forty-five years since coming out of graduate school at the University of Oklahoma. He is the biographer of nineteenth century Jesuit missionary Peter John De Smet and the author of several books on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Together with his wife, Eleanor, Carriker has edited and published two Indian language collections for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Professor Carriker has also directed eight National Endowment for the Humanities seminars for secondary school teachers. He has twice served on the PAT Council before becoming vice president in 2010 and president in 2012.

Stephen D. Carls

Dr. Stephen Carls is University Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. His area of expertise is modern European history, with a special interest in France between 1914 and 1945. He has had a monograph called Louis Loucheur and the Shaping of Modern France published by Louisiana State University Press; Les Presses universitaires du Septentrion released a revised version of the book in France under the title of Louis Loucheur: Ingénieur, homme d’état, modernisateur de la France. He is currently co-authoring a textbook with his wife on twentieth-century Europe. Dr. Carls was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society at the University of Minnesota in 1970, and he has served as the faculty advisor of Union University’s Delta-Psi Chapter since 1983. Nationally, he has been a member of both the Phi Alpha Theta Council and Advisory Board.